WHO Urges Global Effort to Aid Gaza Patients

Amman: The World Health Organization (WHO) called on more countries to receive and treat patients from the Gaza Strip, following the medical evacuation of a group of patients, most of them children, to Jordan. "The World Health Organization supervised the medical evacuation of 35 patients, most of them children, from Gaza to Jordan, accompanied by 72 family members," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on the X platform tonight. According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, the WHO expressed gratitude to the Government of Jordan for its continued support and provision of specialized care to critically ill patients. However, the organization emphasized the urgent need for further international assistance, highlighting that more than 10,000 people in Gaza still require medical evacuation. The WHO has urged more countries to accept patients for medical evacuation, stressing that the lives of many depend on such interventions. The organization reiterated the necessity of expanding medical corridors, including the full resumption of the traditional referral pathway to hospitals in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which existed before the conflict. The WHO warned that at the current rates of evacuation, it would take years to assist all Gaza patients in need of treatment. The organization's statement underscored the dire situation in Gaza, where airstrikes and shortages of medical supplies, food, water, and fuel have severely strained the already under-resourced healthcare system, rendering many hospitals out of service and leaving others barely operational.